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Saturday, mourners attended a funeral service at Ray Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans East to say goodbye.

“I’ll miss that smile,” said band director Shannon Haynes.

“He worked two jobs, and he was a sweetheart. As you can see all of these people out here, they loved Taco. That’s what they called him, and his mama is hurting,” said family friend Brigeanna Steward.

Scott was the oldest of three boys.

His life ended on April 24 in the 3900 block of Gibson Street in the Columbia Parc Apartments when New Orleans police say Scott was visiting his 15-year-old girlfriend. When the girl’s mother came home early, Scott hid in the mother’s bedroom closet and started her. The woman admitted attacking Scott with a knife and killing him.

“This really, really hurts. We never experienced nothing like this,” said his cousin Joehn Williams.

“It fills you up when you see young men and unfortunate things like this happen,” said coach Derek Skip Lamothe.

Lamothe called Scott a great kid who played defensive line for the L.B. Landry Buccaneers.

“I’ve had to endure this a couple of times with some of my former players, but you know, you never get used to it. You never really can prepare. You can’t find words,” said Lamothe.

“I guess this is a wake-up call because now we got schools attending funerals,” said community member Louis Burbank. “Now these kids are going to need counseling. These kids are going to need some extra support.”

Meantime, mourners struggle to cope, come to grips and make sense of it all.